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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands : a longitudinal study
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2016
of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational … with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with Dutch … evidence for the positive effect of co-ethnic contact on employment status. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452733
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019
proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. On average, social contacts and a good …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144572
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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013
effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293123
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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Social networks and the labour market mismatch
Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2015
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a dynamic random effects probit model, we show that social capital exacerbates the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387154
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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016
the living standards of entrepreneurs. In both cases we ask whether these interrelationships differ between migrants and … in the sample who obtained income from self‐employment or from owning a business. Social capital is proxied by responses … Development. We find significant differences between migrants and the native born in terms of the attributes of social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457361
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The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques - 2024
individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535240
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The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting
Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques - 2024
individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015063156
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The role of social capital in shaping Europeans' immigration sentiments
Economidou, Claire; Karamanis, Dimitris; Kechrinioti, … - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/3, pp. 1-31
Migration has manifested itself to historic highs, creating divisive views among politicians, policy makers, and individuals. The present paper studies the Europeans' attitudes toward immigration, focusing particularly on the role of social capital. Based on 267,282 respondents from 22 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303129
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261794